Disclosure
How The Spectrum Post handles sponsored links, affiliate relationships, advertising, and editorial independence.
The Spectrum Post publishes independent coverage of General-interest explainers: tech, money, business, culture. This page sets out every commercial relationship that could reasonably affect how you read it — who pays us, how paid links are marked, and what those arrangements are not allowed to buy.
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Our standing disclosure
Some links may be sponsored. Coverage is independent.
That statement applies to everything published at thespectrumpost.com, in every format, whether or not an individual piece repeats it.
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Paid and affiliate links
The Spectrum Post currently runs no affiliate links and no sponsored placements. Outbound links on this site are editorial: we link to a source because it is the best evidence for the claim we just made, and we are paid nothing when you follow one.
If that changes, every paid or affiliate link will be marked where it appears, will carry the appropriate link attribute, and this page will be updated before the first one runs.
- Sponsored link
- A link The Spectrum Post was paid to carry. Marked in the text where it appears and tagged rel="sponsored".
- Affiliate link
- A link that may earn us a commission if you buy something. Marked the same way, and the price you pay is unaffected.
- Editorial link
- An unpaid link to a source, document, or product we chose to point at. The default on thespectrumpost.com, and never marked as commercial.
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What money does not buy
No commercial relationship decides whether The Spectrum Post covers a topic, who we assign it to, or what we conclude about it. No sponsor, advertiser, or affiliate partner sees a piece before it publishes, and none of them can have a published piece altered or taken down because they dislike it.
A product we earn a commission on gets the same scrutiny as one we do not, and a critical conclusion about a commercial partner runs exactly as written. Where The Spectrum Post cannot cover something in General-interest explainers: tech, money, business, culture without a conflict we cannot disclose our way out of, we do not cover it.
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Questions about a specific placement
If a link, placement, or disclosure on The Spectrum Post is unclear — or you think something commercial went unmarked — tell the editorial desk which article and which link, and we will check it and fix the marking if it is wrong.
How The Spectrum Post sources, checks, and corrects the coverage itself is set out separately in our full editorial policy, linked at the foot of this page.
Ask about a placement
Questions about a sponsored placement, an affiliate relationship, or this policy reach the The Spectrum Post editorial desk directly. Name the article and the link, and we will come back to you.